Data Based Advisor articles from January 1996

Data Based Advisor archives from January 1996

INTERSOLV rounds out middleware line with TechGnosis acquisition. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... In a move to strengthen its "virtual data warehousing solution," INTERSOLV acquired TechGnosis, a provider of cross-platform data access tools. INTERSOLV is offering a pooling interest of 3.4 million shares of common stock and US$7.5 million in...

Platinum shapes up warehouse offerings. (PLATINUM technology's PLATINUM InfoRefiner 3.0 data movement and extraction tool and PLATINUM Repository Open Enterprise Edition DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... PLATINUM technology, Inc., announced PLATINUM InfoRefiner 3.0 and PLATINUM Repository/Open Enterprise Edition 1.0, key components of Platinum's integrated data warehouse solution. InfoRefiner is a graphical data extraction and movement tool, with...

Access/Visual Basic developers, unite! (Access/Visual Basic Advisor Developers Conference) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... The next ACCESS/VISUAL BASIC DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE is coming soon. Call the conference hotline 800-438-6720 or (203)268-3204 or send e-mail to 70007.1614@compuserve.com for details. On CompuServe, GO ADVISOR to visit the advisor forum. Or check...

OMNIS Oracle edition has departmental client-server solution for Oracle platforms. (Blyth Software's)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Blyth Software's new Oracle Edition lets developers prototype, create, and maintain departmental applications for Oracle server platforms. OMNIS Oracle Edition includes a Data Access Module (DAM) for high-speed native access to Oracle servers,...

Information Dimensions, Netscape agreement offers document solutions. (Netscape Communications) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Working with Netscape, Information Dimensions will use the Netscape Server API (NSAPI) to integrate its BASIS document manager with the Netscape Communications Server and Netscape Commerce Server software. information Dimensions will resell this...

Aide-de-Camp/Pro for software configuration management. (True Software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Aide-de-Camp/Pro (ADC/Pro) is a software configuration management tool for department- and enterprise-wide projects. ADC/Pro comes with two components, Process Manager and Scriptor, for tailoring software configuration management according to an...

Neural Connection delivers faster, better models. (SPSS's DBMS utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Neural Connection is a nueral network computing product for predicting and classifying patterns in data. It learns patterns directly from data and imposes no form on the data. Neural Connection has 15 data management, modeling and forecasting,...

Visual Smalltalk helps developers build Windows 95 apps. (Digitalk's Visual Smalltalk and Visual Smalltalk Enterprise)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Windows 95 logo-certified releases of Visual Smalltalk and Visual Smalltalk Enterprise let developers build Windows 95 applications. Digitalk also offers PARTS Wrappers which lets legacy systems and relational databases be integrated with the...

Is the Internet an application development revolution? Can the Web become the dominant operating platform? (Technology Information)(Editorial)
January 1, 1996... Can the Web become the dominant operating platform? Every now and then, something happens in our technical world that mixes things up big time. The official buzzword for this is paradigm shift. The unofficial name is revolution. Plenty of...

Advisor developers forum.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 1996... Developers Provide insight into Competitions As philosopher Friedrich Nietzche said, "Anything that does not destroy you makes you stronger." While the 1995 Developers Competition caused a lot of people to sweat, those who competed are...

Feedback.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 1996... Internet Document Databases I was very happy to see DATA BASED ADVISOR discuss SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language, in Arthur Fuller's article "Internet Document Databases Arrive" (Test Drives, June 1995). As Mr. Fuller says, we're...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 1996... The following products from Corsoft Corp. were incorrectly listed in the October 1995 issue. They are available for these introductory prices: CorDoc for Power Builder, US$199, and Cor Admin for Watcom SQL, US$99. Corsoft Corp., (415)286-2870,...

Monks move your access database to Oracle. (Bunker Hill Software's Scriptoria 2.0 DBMS utility) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... The cover of the Scriptoria box shows a robed and balding monk preparing script, and that's exactly what this software does--it prepares cripts, although it doesn't use parchment and a quill-pen. The scripts it prepares are for migrating an...

Coming events. (News Briefs)
January 1, 1996... Lotusphere 96, Orlando, FL. 21-25 January--Over 200 sessions on technical details of Notes, cc:Mail, SmartSuite, Soft Switch messaging backbone products, and other Lotus techonologies. Walt Disney World Resort. Lotus Development Corp.,...

Application framework aids development. (ServerLogic's PowerClass 4.1 DBMS utility) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... Recently, I had the opportunity to experiment with PowerClass version 4.1 from ServerLogic. PowerClass is an application framework that provides a predefined set of objects and functions for building clientserver applications with PowerBuilder....

Create and format diagrams the easy way. (Visio's Visio 4.0 for Windows draw software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... As developers we have many wishes for tools to make our jobs easier. We want well-integrated analysis and documentation tools to assist us in creating diagrams and documentation. Many tools have tried to fill these gaps with various levels of...

Navigation and analysis tool for the WWW. (Management Science Associates' Business Web decision support and analysis tool)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 1996... Business Web, a decision support and analysis tool, aids users in navigation and analysis of corporate database, data warehouses, and other varried data sources. Users ca track business and product performance, monitor competitive activity, and...

Visigenic's ODBC Driver. (Visigenic Software's ODBC Driver for Oracle7 application development software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... The ODBC Driver for Oracle 7 will be integrated into Microsoft's Visual Basic 4.0 Enterprice and Professional Editions. Visigenic's ODBC driver supports Visual Basic 4.0's 32-bit architecture. It also provides developers access to the Oracle7...

CASE tool for VB apps. (Visual Basic) (Oracle's Designer/2000 1.2)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Designer/2000 Releasel.2, a modeling tool that generates code for Microsoft's Visual Basic applications, lets developers build fully functional applications. The product support process reengineering (BPR), system analysis and design, and...

File I/O library fills the high- low-end gap. (Menai's Gamelon File I/O Library 2.0 programming utility) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... It's no secret that our profession is data riven. Whether it's a list of customers, a word processing document, or a weather prediction, data is our business--its input, storage, presentation, and output. The products to meet this need range from...

4GL tool for the World Wide Web. (fourth generation language) (Speedware's Autobahn Web authoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Autobahn is a 4GL application development toolset that lets programmers create applications for the World Wide Web. An interactive demonstration of Autobahn is available at http://www.speedware.com, Speedware's home page. Call for prices....

Crash Control for Lotus Notes servers. (Software Cafe's data security device)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Crash Control for Lotus Notes is an autonomous, server-based, hardware and software combination for monitoring Lotus Notes servers. A key feature is its ability to restart a Lotus Notes server, or the operating system. Notes administrators can...

WWW database integration tool. (EveryWare Development Corp's Tango Internet access software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Tango is a visual development tool that integrates Butler SQL with WebSTAR World Wide Web server. It lets Web administrators create Web pages that access Butler SQL without writing SQL or HTML code. Web developers can create database solutions...

OLE controls for Visual Basic 4.0 and Visual C++ 4.0. (MicroHelp updating adds OLE to software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... MicroHelp is updating all of its existing tools to include the new OLE technology, containing both 16-bit and 32-bit OLE controls, as well as 16-bit VBX's. Additional tools to be updated are Compression Plus, Communications Library, and VB...

GUI tools for Visual Basic and PowerBuilder. (Software Development Tools Inc's AppBridge AutoCode for Visual Basic, AppBridge AutoCode for PowerBuilder application development software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... AppBridge AutoCode has versions for Visual Basic and Powerbuilder that generate graphical user interface (GUI) versions of host screens. They allow companies to combine host-based applications with client-server systems. Create host navigation...

Lotus SmartSuite 96 Edition for Windows 95. (integrated software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... SmartSuite 96 Edition for Windows 95 includes completely rearchitectured 32-bit versions of the Word Pro word processor, Freelance Graphics, Approach database, and SmartCenter suite command center. Also updated are versions of 1-2-3 spreedsheet,...

How to find that file in a haystack. (Isys Odyssey Development's Isys 4.0 text search and retrieval software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... ISYS version 4.0 from Isys Odyssey Development, Inc. is a full text indexing, search, and retrieval engine that works with SQL database as well as a number of common local file formats. Its purpose is to help you find information that you know...

Bring document solutions to the enterprise. (Information Dimensions' BASIS document manager integrated with Netscape Communications Server and Netscape Commerce Server software) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Information Dimensions will use the Netscape Server API (NSAPI) to integrate its BASIS document manager with the Netscape Communications Server and Netscape Commerce Server software products. This helps organizations manage large document...

Standard set for meta data integration. (Prism Solutions' Prism Directory Manager 2.0 DBMS utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Prism Directory Manager 2.0 is an integration point for managing informational meta data in a data warehouse environment. It offers business analysts point-and-click launch of query tools, a range of CASE tools from which to import data, and a...

SQA Suite for Windows 95 and Windows NT. (Software Quality Automation's testing debugging software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... SQA Suite for Windows 95 and Windows NT provides integrated testing for enterprise client-server applications developed for the Windows 95 and Windows NT 32-bit operating systems. The 32-bit version of SQA Suite will provide SQA's object-level...

Streamline repetitive programming tasks. (American Cybernetics' Multi-Edit for Windows 7.01 program editor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Multi-Edit for Windows v7.01 utilizes an edit-on-the-fly template system to edit existing templates, or to create new ones without the need to recompile or exit the editor. Other features include collapsible (outline) editing, long filename...

New Web development environment. (SunSoft plans Web authoring software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... SunSoft's Web development environment includes tools for creating, publishing, and distributing dynamic Web pages and Java applications. Includes real-time, fully interactive graphics, audio, and video. The environment will be available for...

InterNotes Web Publisher 2.0. (Lotus' Internet/Web server software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... InterNotes Web Publisher 2.0 lets organizations and companies access potential customers browsing the Internet. It provides automatic conversion of Notes documents, forms, views, and attachments to HTML for publishing on Web sites. Supports...

Use InfoMaker to do tables, forms, reports, and .EXEs. (Powersoft's InfoMaker 4.0 report generation software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... Powersoft's InfoMaker 4.0 goes than standard reporting are. It gives you full access to data for reporting, querying, and form design. It comes bundled with Watcom SQL 4.0, and its lets you create and manage local or servers tables Once you have...

OLE custom controls supported. (Sylvain Faust's SQL-Sombrero/OCX for DB-Library programming library)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... SQL- Sombrero/OCX for DB-library takes advantage of the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system version 4.0, allowing direct acces to Microsoft SQL Server and SYBASE SQL Sever data. It provides the interface necessary to access DB-Library...

CORBA and OLE repository support planned. (Unisys's Universal Repository DBMS) (Product Development)
January 1, 1996... Universal Repository will support the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation interfaces. As an object-oriented repository for access, concurrent sharing, and updating of information for...

Who's reading your E-mail? (SecureWare's SecureMail E-mail)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... SecureMail transparently offers e-mail transmissions across public networks using cryptography from RSA Data Security to positively identify the sender and receiver. It ensures that messages arrive exactly as sent and encrypts message so only the...

Blyth teams up with Oracle. (Blyth Software's OMNIS Oracle Edition DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... OMNIS Oracle edition lets developers prototype, create, and maintain departmental applications for Oracle server platforms. It provides a complete client development environment, including a Data Access Module (DAM) that provides native access to...

Subtleware Cgen. (Subtle Software's Subtleware Class Generator DBMS utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Subtleware Class Generator is an interactive Windows tool that creates C++ class definitions from a relational database scheme. It helps developer bridge the gap between object-oriented and relational technologies. Cgen lets you connect to a...

VB to Delphi transfer. (Visual Basic) (Eagle Research VB2D Professional and Standard translator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... VB2D is a Visual Basic-to-Delphi translator that translates Visual Basic software applications to Borland Delphi's development system. The Standard Edition includes a diagnostic report listing of project file, inserted typecasts and precedence...

Quarterdeck's InternetSuite. (IWare InternetSuite 2.0 Internet Web server software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Quarterdeck IWare InternetSuite 2.0 lets NetWareLANs of all sizes run Quarterdeck InternetSuite application without TCP/IP stack loaded and administered on every workstation. The product, licensed on a concurrent user basis, also offers enhanced...

Toolset eases server development. (Analytical Solutions' SQL Workshop 3.0 DBMS) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... When I hear the words "Developer's Tool," I usually reach for my Cancel button. There are simply too many developer's tools out there, and everytime I see one, I want to blast a few holes, in the screen of an old 386! This time, before reacting...

Complete automation of cross platform replication. (Platinum Technology's InfoExpress DBMS utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... InfoExpress is a software tool that helps organizations migrate mainframe data to client-server databases in a heterogeneous environment. Eliminates manual task and technical problems. Performs data type conversion at the host. When the...

Automated testing tools for client-server environments. (Compuware's Playback testing tools)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... PLAYBACK for client-server is a new series of automated testing tools that streamlines the testing process and ensures application quality. It includes five automated testing tools: a centralized testing manager,three interactive testing tools,...

Sylvan Ascent Inc. releases SylvanMaps/.OCX. (mapping utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... SylvanMaps/.OCX is a new 32-bit OLE control capable of adding sophisticated mapping capabilities to custom program written in Microsoft Access, Visual FoxPro,Visual Basic, Visual C++. and other language that support OLE controls. ODBC is used for...

Dial-in software for Novell LANs. (Funk Software's WanderLink 2.0 remote access software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Funk Software has released Version 2 of WanderLink Version 2 is a LAN dial-in software that lets users connect to a network over phone lines. it has three components: a Netware Loadable Module (NLM) that install on a Netware file server, dual...

Discussion Manager has enhanced knowledge management. (grapeVINE Technologies' workgroup software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... grapeVINE's Discussion Manager software allows people to alert other appropriate staff in their organization to important items without having to know who they are and Without broadcasting an e-mail message. Wherever information is placed in a...

ObjectCatalog offers quick access to reusable components. (ObjectSpace's application development software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Object-Catalog is a distributed, cross-platform component reuse facility that offers a solution to the problem of locating reusable components. It lets developments teams--in different buildings or parts of the world--to carry out searches of...

New XDB Server 5.0. (XDB Systems' DBMS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... XDB Server 5.0 is an enhanced server for distributed client-sever application development and production. Version 5.0 is a production platform form for running OLTP and OLAP applications or as a centralized repository for host-targeted...

Windows Communications Toolkit. (SilverWare's SilverWare Windows Communications Tool Kit 5.01 application development software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... The Silverware Windows Communications Tool Kit version 5,01 is a multi-language communication dynamic link library. It's accessible from any Windows language or program that can make FAR PASCAL function calls and can pass 16- and 32-bit...

Delphi turns 32. (Borland International's Borland Delphi32 application development software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... The desire to write native 32-bit applications is a hot topic with developers that dates back to the hype surrounding early Windows 95 announcements. Now that Windows 95 is released and selling in huge quantities, it's even more important to...

Get ready for Lotus Notes release 4. (Product Information)
January 1, 1996... One of the problems in publishing is that you have to write articles months before they appear in print. This is one of those times when I wish I could have waited until the day before publication to write, but alas, it couldn't be done. This...

Clarion claims first RAD tool for Windows 95: TopSpeed Corp. successfully shoots for Windows 95 compatibility. (Clarion 1.5 for Windows 95 DBMS) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
January 1, 1996... Clarion 1.5 for Windows 95, US$499 TopSpeed Corporation Pompano Beach, Florida 800-354-4444, (305)785-4555 Fax (305)946-1650 Version 1.5 of Clarion for Windows 1.5 is as impressive as the first release almost a year ago. I have to admit I was...

Three-tier architecture at its best. (includes related article on Neuron Data) (Technology Information)
January 1, 1996... In the October 1995 issue of Data Based Advisor, I wrote an article explaining three-tier architecture ("Three Tiers for Client-Server"), one of the important new trends in corporate application development. This article builds from there with...

Utility turns on the power of client-server. (Florida Power Company) (includes related article on Foundation applications) (Company Operations)
January 1, 1996... Foundation for Cooperative Processing, $10,000 and up Andersen Consulting 69 West Washington St., Suite 2010 Chicago, IL 60602 800-458-8851, (312)507-6784 The cornerstone of any business is providing its customers with prompt, professional...

Transforming data into action. (health and beauty manufacturer employ OLAP and workflow software) (Technology Information)
January 1, 1996... Here's how OLAP technology lets your sales and marketing analysts spend less time wrestling with technical details and more time figuring out how to stay ahead of the competition. Imagine you're an application developer for a large,...

Object-oriented analysis for client-server projects. (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... Object-oriented analysis and design will improve your system designs and help you create reliable, maintainable, extensible client-server systems. "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that...

Data access in Delphi. (Borland International's application development software) (Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... With a powerful set of database tools, Delphi's a natural for developing client-server applications. Delphi is quickly being recognized as a serious alternative for building applications for Windows. This is largely due to the combination of...

Building a robust error object. (PowerSoft's PowerBuilder DBMS) (Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... Walter Hagen, the professional golfer, was complaining to his wife one day that he was having trouble making long putts. With a typical display of spousal support, she replied (paraphrased), "Well, hit your approach shot closer to the hole."...

Migrating your VB 3 project to Visual Basic 4.0. (Microsoft's application development software) (Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... Moving to .OCX controls, a 32-bit platform, and OLE Automation involves more than just updating your project files. In the midst of all the hoopla of Windows 95, Office 95, Access 95, Encarta 95, and (there's no doubt in my mind that it's...

Data integrity, part III: relational integrity. (Microsoft's FoxPro 2.x and Visual FoxPro DBMS) (Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... In this installment, John shows how redundant data can have an impact on data integrity in FoxPro. A fundamental concept in the relational model is that all data is related. Although the relational model encourages the elimination of redundant...

Tight and fast .DBF access. (data base file extension) (Technology Tutorial)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... In this article, I show you a .DBF reader written in C++ and explain how you can write your own. I'll use two classes: one for general .DBFs, and one that's application-specific. I'll use a contact class for CONTACTS.DBF. You'll see how you can...

Developing a simple MDI add/edit/delete system. (Multiple Document Interface) (Computer Associates International's CA-Visual Objects 1.0c DBMS) (Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... You can improve upon the MDI menus that Visual Objects gives you. In this article, I show how to write a basic MDI add/edit/delete program. I won't use Visual Objects' standard MDI shell. Instead, I'll show how to write an MDI shell from...

Use database OLE objects with Visual dBASE 5.5. (Oracle's Objects for OLE DBMS utility) (Product Support)(Tutorial)
January 1, 1996... Oracle Objects for OLE provides an alternative for database access. In the software industry, you can never stop learning. The more you learn, the faster you have to work to keep up with all the new emerging trends. Visual dBASE, and its array...

Database confidential. (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1996... Among the many secrets Microsoft's Tod Nielsen revealed at last October's Advisor Access Developers Conference, here's Buzz's favorite: How to open the Easter egg credits screen hidden in Excel 7.0 (part of Microsoft Office 95). 1. Open a new...